Railway-rail.



0. P. WILLIAMS.

RAILWAY RAIL.

APPLICATION HLED FEB. 20. 191?.

1,23 1 ,465 Patented June 26, 1917.

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OLIVER P. WILLIAM-S, OF YOUNGSTOWN FLORIDA, ASSIGN OR 0F ONE-THIRD TOARTHUR C. WILLIAMS, 0F MURDOCK, FLORIDA.

RAILWAY-RAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1917.

Application filed February 20, 1917. Serial N 0. 149,849.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIvER P. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Youngstown, in the county of Bay and State of Florida, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rails, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in the construction ofrailways rails.

In carrying out my invention it is my purtween the tread portion of therails will be broken with respect to the joints of the base orsupporting portions of the said rails and also wherein. the said base orsupporting portions comprise substantially similar but independentmembers arranged upon the opposite sides of the web of the tread portionof the ends of the said base or supporting members will not be disposedopposite each other, so that the staggered joints between the supportingand the tread portions of the rail tends to produce a substantiallycontinuous rail.

With the above and other objects in view the improvement resides in theconstruction combination and arrangement of parts set forth in thefollowing specification and falling within the scope of the appendedclaim.

In the drawing:

' Figure l is a side elevation of a compound rail constructed inaccordance with the present invention,

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the same taken upon agreatly enlarged scale,

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view upon an enlarged scale andapproximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4: is a detail perspective view of the tread member of the rail, an

Fig. 5 is a similar perspective view of one of the base or treadsupporting members.

The rail is broadly indicated by the character R and the supporting tiesby the characters T.

The rail includes tread members all of a similar construction, eachcomprising a head 1 and a centrally arranged depending web 2. The web atthe lower edge thereof is formed with outwardly extending angularlydisposed ribs 3-3 so that the said lower edge of the web issubstantially V-shaped in cross section. a

l of the tread of the rail upon its underface and in a line with thesides of the web 2 is formed with continuous V- shaped channels H, andthe web between the ribs 3 and the underface of the ball or head of therail vals with transverse bolt openings. The base or straight plate orside member 5, the upper edge of which being beveled, as at 6, wherebyto be received in the channels 4111 the underface of the head or ball ofthe tread portion of the rail. The plates or side members 5 are providedwith openings 7 that are designed to register with the openings in theweb of the tread and the said plates 5 below the said openings areformed each with an outwardly extending flange '8, the inner surface ofwhich corresponding to the outer angular surface of the ribs 3 upon theweb 2 of the tread. The

whereby to receive spikes 9 that enter the formed with the flanges 9 areinwardly extending flanges 10, the same be ing formed with a continuousupwardly projecting rib 11, the outer edge of the said flange beingvertically straight and the angular inner face of the said ribs 11 beingdesigned to engage with the angular surfaces of the ribs 3 upon the web2 of the tread. The straight inner edges of the base 10 upon the sidemembers i may contact, and when the securing elements are passed throughthe alining openings in the plates 5 and in the web 2 of the tread thenuts screwed upon the said bolts, the sections comprising the rails maybe readily associated in a firm and substantial manner whereby the treadsurface is eifectively supported upon the base members of the rail. Itwill be apparent by reference to the drawings and from the abovedescription that the meeting ends of the side members of the support maybe disthat the meeting ends of the supports on one of the sides of thera ls may be disposed away from the meeting ends of the supports uponthe opposite s des of the rails.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

In a compound rail, a tread includinga head and a w b centrallydepending from thehead, said web upon, its lower-edge have 7 ingoutwardly extending angularly disposed ribs, the head of the tread uponits under: face being grooved longitudinally in a line with the sides ofthe web, a support for the tread comprising plates adaptedto engage withthe sides of the web and to have their upper edges receives in theunderface of the Copies of this patent may .be obtained for fiveeents,eac

head of the tread, said plates having their 15 lower portions flangedoutwardly to engage with the outer surfaces of the ribs upon the web,said plates having their lower edges provided with inturned members thathave\ their inner edges formed with upwardly ex-\20 tending ribs thatare adapted to engage with s the underfaces of the ribs of the web andto contact; with each; other, and means comprising transverse memberspassing through the side membersiandwebs toreonneoting the said sides.to the Webs of the, rails.

In testimony. whereof .1 ailix my signature.

OLIVER WILLIAMS.

, by addressing; the 0ommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

